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@t3dy hm maybe. i get very antsy about those terms because of historical meanings of "magic white people do" & "magic black people do".
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@chaosprime part of the problem is the rereading of "nigromancy" which didn't use the color black as a binary opposed to "acceptable" magic!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@chaosprime yeah in my historical work on Renaissance Magic they're of no use whatever, but useful for communicating w/ modern uh believers -
@t3dy oh, believers. so adorable, with all their believing. -
@chaosprime and if you scratch a RAWfan "believe null" type you oft find belief in lots of historiographical myths if not supernatural magic
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@chaosprime@t3dy AFAIK, the Black Magic Is Racist thing is purely from Tumbler babypagans. -
@catvincent@chaosprime LOL and the whole distinction between white and black magic is a 19c invention... (or LHP/RHP even more recently) -
@t3dy@catvincent the concepts behind LHP/RHP, if not the terms, are pretty old though (though also largely lost under cultural cruft) -
@t3dy@catvincent what they friggin should mean is that you're either relying on God's justice, Gevurah on the right, i.e. doing the mitzvot -
@t3dy@catvincent or relying on God's mercy, Chesed on the left, i.e. doing what the fuck ever -
@chaosprime@catvincent well there's also the sitra ahra to worry about in the classical tradition... -
@t3dy@catvincent yeah, the concern that God is an asshole and so maybe you shouldn't rely on his mercy is strongly attested
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@t3dy not that white hat & black hat aren't part of the same system of moral chromatism, just at a somewhat greater remove from the racism.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@chaosprime@t3dy Are they actual historical meanings, though? The derivation of Black magic I learned was via the puns on Egyptian ‘chem’ -
@catvincent@chaosprime nobody in the middle ages, renaissance, or early modern periods had a concept of "white magic" AFAIK. modern term
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@chaosprime@t3dy …which, depending on the vowel, can mean Egyptian, Wise or Black - thus Al’chey’ya=Alchemy=The Wise/Black/Egyptian ArtThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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